cdoverlaw
05-13-2005, 10:05 AM
Good Evening
I have been using PC's since i was tiny, first playing games (lion king was a classic) and then moving on to programming in Qbasic at only 9 years old. Anyway to cut the story short, i then went on to study a Computing A-Level, and then at start of my second year of the course i bought a ibook G4 1.2ghz (top of range model at the time) thinkin that i would do, but wouldnt be a replacement to my main computer.
I was extremly wrong, my computer hasnt even had a OS installed for past 3 weeks as i erased the hard drive after windows wouldnt work and i couldnt be bothered reinstalling it. My Ibook G4 is such a dream to use that their is no point denying that its replaced my PC, and my PC was no slouch either, its still a nice spec machines (although its 2 years old). Its got a AMD Athlon 2500 XP overclocked to the speed of 3200, also its got 512mb RAM.
My laptop renders photoshop documents easier and along with realbasic is a great development environment.
I run a webhost (Revoshift.com) and run multiple websites so only problem with my ibook is i have to use a 2nd browser for managing some of the scripts i use.
Anyway I am going to univercity this september and i think a full pc is to big to take to univercity but their are still some PC apps i like to run (Sorry guys but i cant find a replacement for microsoft (sorry for swearing) publisher, or a good replacement for Autograph (tigers grapher comes close but not close enough)). I tried Virtual PC on my ibook but its to sluggish.
So I am thinking of getting a second mac, due to size i feel that a Imac G5 should do nicely, but i need opinions on which model i should buy, also is their a good TV tuner, as i could justify getting the 20inch model if i can use it as a TV as well (otherwise i would need to buy a new TV as well and at univercity i am limited in space)
I bought a ipod because of my mac, not the other way round, so its not just the ipod halo effect, its the apple halo effect.
EDIT: Before i bought a mac i had used a Powermac G3 and Powermac G4 but only briefly when at college taster days, and to be honest i hated them the first time i used them, i was to used to windows and they were using OS 9, I believe with OS X apple got it just right, (although according to my computing computer "its only an operating system it only does the same as windows" which is rubbish, OS X rocks
Jonathan
I have been using PC's since i was tiny, first playing games (lion king was a classic) and then moving on to programming in Qbasic at only 9 years old. Anyway to cut the story short, i then went on to study a Computing A-Level, and then at start of my second year of the course i bought a ibook G4 1.2ghz (top of range model at the time) thinkin that i would do, but wouldnt be a replacement to my main computer.
I was extremly wrong, my computer hasnt even had a OS installed for past 3 weeks as i erased the hard drive after windows wouldnt work and i couldnt be bothered reinstalling it. My Ibook G4 is such a dream to use that their is no point denying that its replaced my PC, and my PC was no slouch either, its still a nice spec machines (although its 2 years old). Its got a AMD Athlon 2500 XP overclocked to the speed of 3200, also its got 512mb RAM.
My laptop renders photoshop documents easier and along with realbasic is a great development environment.
I run a webhost (Revoshift.com) and run multiple websites so only problem with my ibook is i have to use a 2nd browser for managing some of the scripts i use.
Anyway I am going to univercity this september and i think a full pc is to big to take to univercity but their are still some PC apps i like to run (Sorry guys but i cant find a replacement for microsoft (sorry for swearing) publisher, or a good replacement for Autograph (tigers grapher comes close but not close enough)). I tried Virtual PC on my ibook but its to sluggish.
So I am thinking of getting a second mac, due to size i feel that a Imac G5 should do nicely, but i need opinions on which model i should buy, also is their a good TV tuner, as i could justify getting the 20inch model if i can use it as a TV as well (otherwise i would need to buy a new TV as well and at univercity i am limited in space)
I bought a ipod because of my mac, not the other way round, so its not just the ipod halo effect, its the apple halo effect.
EDIT: Before i bought a mac i had used a Powermac G3 and Powermac G4 but only briefly when at college taster days, and to be honest i hated them the first time i used them, i was to used to windows and they were using OS 9, I believe with OS X apple got it just right, (although according to my computing computer "its only an operating system it only does the same as windows" which is rubbish, OS X rocks
Jonathan